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About Red Book sometimes sounding better... RE: odd

Agree with your comments Ted.

One thing I need to add though is that as a fan of the rock/pop genre, almost 30% of the SACD's I've ripped looks like converted Red Book with hard cut-off's at 22kHz! A few off the top of my head:

- all the Dead Can Dance MFSL SACD's
- Celine Dion - A New Day Has Come (yeah... I know... why bother :-)
- Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
- Eugene Ruffolo - Even Santa Gets The Blues (Stockfisch WTF!)
- Vince Guaraldi - Merry Christmas Charlie Brown
- Top Gun OST
- even the recent 2011 Analogue Productions Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman looks suspicious (maybe the analog tapes had no frequencies past ~23kHz?)

With titles like these, it's not surprising that the Red Book would sound better. It's a shame that this kind of practice was allowed to carry on. The record companies could get by when SACD was copy protected and folks didn't bother looking. These days with digital rips, the ugly truth is out.

IMO - other than the jazz and classical genres, there's no point buying any rock/pop SACD's between the "just Red Book" issue and overused compression/limiting in the music itself.

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